Sunday, August 18, 2013

Gaelic Lord and warrior circa 1000 AD (c) Ulster Heritage

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Gaelic Lord and warrior circa 1000AD in Argyll. Mid Argyll was the home of the Gall-Ghaeil, or the 'foreign Gaels,' in the early medieval period (850AD to 1150AD). These people were primarily Gaelic in ethnicity, but were very influenced by their exposure to the Norse. They became Gaelic Vikings essentially. They adopted Norse technology in the accoutrements of war and shipbuilding. The warrior caste society of Argyll founded by the Gall-Ghaeil gave rise to the Gallóglaigh and later the Redshanks.

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The Redshank will feature articles on the history and legacy of Argyll and Islands Scots circa 1200 to the present. The blog will feature DNA results that are leading to a better understanding of clan and family kinship groups in Argyll and the Islands.

The Redshank blog will also focus on Gaels from Argyll and the southern Hebrides that migrated to Ireland circa 1450 to the early 1600s. They are part of the Ulster Scot community, yet differ in some regards. They were Gaelic speaking and have both Presbyterian and Catholic backgrounds. The main areas of settlement were north Antrim and east Donegal. They remain there today and their descendants also participated in the Ulster Migration to Colonial America and Canada in the 1700s and 1800s. They became part of the Scots-Irish community in the New World.

The Redshank settlements in Ulster have not been studied in depth in the past. Their history is often overshadowed by the large influx of Scots that migrated to Ulster during the Plantation. This blog will make their interesting history better known and show how they fit into the Ulster Scot story.